coronavirus pandemic

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President Erdoğan, Banking Agency File Complaint Against TV Anchor Fatih Portakal

President and AKP Chair Erdoğan and Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) have filed a criminal complaint against FOX TV anchor Fatih Portakal at the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.

7 April 2020

COVID-19

Farmers: We are Worried, Like Everyone

Speaking to bianet, farmers say that they are having difficulties in production and their future is full of uncertainties amid coronavirus outbreak. Facing several hardships from finding workers to distributing products, farmers are worried.

7 April 2020 Hikmet Adal

Voluntary Network of 3D Printer Owners Makes Face Shields for Health Workers

A country-wide network of volunteers makes and distributes 3D-printed face shields to tackle the protective equipment shortage of health workers.

6 April 2020 Hikmet Adal

HEALTH AND SAFETY LABOR WATCH REPORT

14 Workers Lose Their Lives Due to Coronavirus in March

According to the Health and Safety Labor Watch report, at least 113 workers lost their lives in occupational homicides last month. While 14 workers died of coronavirus, two of the deceased workers were children working in agriculture and metal sectors.

6 April 2020

İSTANBUL SECURITY DIRECTORATE DATA

‘Domestic Violence Has Increased by 38.2 Percent in İstanbul’

According to the data of İstanbul Security Directorate, the number of reported domestic violence incidents in the city has increased from 1,804 in March 2019 to 2,493 in March 2020, marking a 38.2 percent increase.

6 April 2020

Ministry of Defense: Movement of Military Units Reduced to Minimum in Syria

The Ministry of National Defense has announced that the movement of military personnel and units in operation areas in Syria has been reduced to minimum unless absolutely necessary due to coronavirus pandemic.

6 April 2020

From Journalists to Arrested Colleagues: Though We Stay Home, We Won’t Stay Silent

Releasing a statement, "Have You Heard” Initiative has said, “We call on everybody, with or without authority: Take action for the release of imprisoned journalists before they are faced with the virus threat. Raise your voice with ours.”

6 April 2020

PENNED BY AYŞE GÜL YILGÖR

Funding to Pay Minimum Wage to 5,163,511 Persons/Households for 4 Months

No one should be dismissed, no one should starve. Is it really because of inadequate public funding or because of preferences as to which segments, how and in what proportion will this public funding be distributed?

6 April 2020 Ayşe Gül Yılgör

PENNED BY OSMAN İŞÇİ

Global Coronavirus Outbreak and the Need for a Real Peace

The fundamental fields of study and work against this global outbreak, especially the second and third categories, suggest a single need: The need to build a real peace.

5 April 2020 Osman İşçi

PENNED BY KIVILCIM TURANLI

Coronavirus Outbreak, Human Rights, Peace

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reports, the amount of money only spent for armament and war across the world is as vast as 2 trillion dollars and it keeps increasing.

4 April 2020 Kıvılcım Turanlı

Turkey Restricts Entrance, Exit to 31 Cities, Mandates Face Masks over Covid-19

Wearing face masks in crowded areas has been mandated and a curfew has been imposed on people under the age of 20, President Erdoğan has announced.

3 April 2020

Turkey's Coronavirus Cases Top 20 Thousand, Minister Says Measures Not Enough in İstanbul

The county's death toll has reached 425 as 69 people died in the last 24 hours while nearly half of the deaths occurred in İstanbul, the Health Minister has announced.

3 April 2020

BOZDOĞAN FROM EDUCATION UNION

‘Our Students are not Equal, Education Should be Given by Considering Differences’

Speaking to bianet about distance education, Education Union Secretary for Education Bozdoğan says, “You cannot introduce a system by considering everyone on equal terms, because the conditions of neither our children, nor our teachers are equal.”

3 April 2020 Ruken Tuncel

PENNED BY ERTUĞRUL KÜRKÇÜ

Ruling Coalition Determined to Exclude Political Prisoners from The COVID-19 "Amnesty"

The ruling coalition's draft bill to protect inmates from COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey's already overloaded prisons, faces strong reaction by the opposition parties for discriminating against poltical prisoners and "criminals of thought".

3 April 2020 Ertuğrul Kürkçü

Relatives of Arrested Journalists: We Get More and More Concerned as Days Pass

When we ask the relatives of jailed journalists about their opinions on the bill of criminal execution, they express their indignation about the exclusion of their loved ones. “They are taking responsibility for human life,” says Özge Terkoğlu.

3 April 2020 Hikmet Adal

Lawyers: Sentence Reduction Bill is Against the Principle of Equality Before the Law

Two lawyers have spoken to bianet about a new law proposal aiming to reduce the prison population amid the coronavirus pandemic.

3 April 2020 Ayça Söylemez

PENNED BY HÜSEYİN ŞENGÜL

To Health Workers

Covid-19 outbreak is an historical incident. No matter how historians will write this incident in the future, these health workers already deserve to be remembered with respect.

3 April 2020 Hüseyin Şengül

CORONAVIRUS

‘It is not Enough to Say “Stay Home”, A Serious Isolation is Necessary’

We have asked İstanbul Medical Chamber Chair Prof. Dr. Pınar Saip and Turkish Medical Association (TTB) Vice Chair Prof. Dr. Ali Çerkezoğlu whether a mandatory quarantine is necessary in Turkey amid COVID-19 pandemic.

2 April 2020 Pınar Tarcan

CORONAVIRUS

‘If We Cannot Ensure Planting, a Crisis Might Arise in Agriculture’

Noting that the season has opened for planting vegetable seeds and seedlings, CHP MP Gürer says, “Farmers cannot go out due to the coronavirus outbreak. The uncertainty makes farmers descend into pessimism.”

2 April 2020 Hikmet Adal

Coronavirus: Turkey Records Highest Death Toll in a Single Day as Cases Found in All Provinces

Sixty-three people died and 2,148 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours while 8,852 of all cases have been found in İstanbul, according to the Health Minister.

1 April 2020

PENNED BY DR. ERİŞ BİLALOĞLU

Maybe, We Cannot be Enough for You!

At that moment… Standing over the ventilator in intensive care… When your mother, my brother, his wife, partner, father… When they are all expecting the necessary service from physicians, maybe, we cannot be enough for you despite our all efforts!

1 April 2020 Eriş Bilaloğlu

PENNED BY EVİN JİYAN KIŞANAK

Don’t Let Prison be a Funeral Home

In the aftermath of September 12 military coup, my mother was in Diyarbakır No. 5 Military Prison, where the most inhuman tortures were inflicted. Crimes against humanity were committed there. But, she has never stopped saying peace and equality.

1 April 2020 Evin Jiyan Kışanak

Covid-19 Regulation by Judicial Body will 'Increase Male Violence'

Judges and prosecutors have been ordered to consider the health of the persons who use violence on women when issuing restraint orders against them.

31 March 2020 Evrim Kepenek

Letter from Prison: ‘If Virus Enters the Ward, We will Get Infected in an Hour or So’

Sending a letter to bianet, a prisoner from Bolu Type T Prison says that they cannot keep their “social distance” due to overcrowding: “How can our immune systems be strong in an environment where we are constantly under stress?”

31 March 2020 Ayça Söylemez

27 Rights Organizations Call on Turkey to Release Jailed Journalists

In the joint statement, it has been indicated, “We call on the Turkish authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalists, human rights defenders and others who have been charged or convicted simply for exercising their rights.”

31 March 2020

TTB REPORT ON HEALTH WORKERS

‘Healthcare Providers Still Working Without Masks in Turkey’

The Turkish Medical Association (TTB) has announced that healthcare workers are still having serious shortage of personal protective equipments such as masks, gloves and gowns amid COVID-19 pandemic.

31 March 2020

Pandemic Hits Small Shop Owners: 'How Do I Pay My Employees?'

"Our business was already not good due to the economic crisis. There was a slowdown in the market. Now we have no hope," says a small shop owner who struggles to maintain his business during the coronavirus pandemic.

31 March 2020 Hikmet Adal

COVID-19

Erdoğan: We Launch a National Solidarity Campaign

Addressing the public following the cabinet meeting, President Erdoğan has announced that they have launched a “National Solidarity Campaign” to support the ones in need amid COVID-19 pandemic and he has donated his seven monthly salaries.

31 March 2020

Turkey Quarantines Dozens of Villages in 18 Provinces over Coronavirus Pandemic

Villages and neighborhoods located in a large area from east to west of the country have been quarantined as part of measures to contain Covid-19.

31 March 2020

PENNED BY BÜLENT ŞIK

Is Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Transmitted Through Food?

We need to avoid overcooking processes such as keeping food in high temperatures for a long time, etc. out of fear or worry about the virus. We have to keep cooking our food how we have always cooked them.

31 March 2020 Bülent Şık

Briefly Detained for ‘Stay Home’ Video, Truck Driver Yılmaz: I Think I Lose My Job, Too

Briefly detained after sharing a video of himself criticizing the “stay home” calls amid COVID-19 outbreak, long-haul truck driver Yılmaz says, “I think I have been dismissed, too. Today, I called my workplace. They said ‘We will call you’ and hung up.”

30 March 2020 Ayça Söylemez

How will the Coronavirus Pandemic Affect News Media in Turkey?

We have spoken with Assoc. Prof. Esra Arsan and Prof. Süleyman İrvan on the possible effects of the pandemic on the media.

30 March 2020 Hikmet Adal